Open for business

A recently completed waterfront warehouse expansion has boosted covered storage capacity at the Port Authority-owned Arthur M. Clure Public Marine Terminal to more than 370,000 square feet.

Warehousing space has been a critical issue in recent years for Lake Superior Warehousing due to continued expansion of its customer base. The annex to the existing East Warehouse provides an extra 88,000 square feet of storage room plus an 18,000-square-foot canopied railcar dock. Products soon to be stored there include lumber, paper, wood pulp, bagged grains, talc, powdered milk and various project cargoes.
Illustration by Steve Lindstrom

Lakehead Constructors, Inc., Superior, was awarded the $3.4 million construction project. A Minnesota Department of Transportation Port Development Assistance Program grant covered 80 percent of project costs with the Port Authority providing the balance.

In the photo at left, Port Commissioners Tom Clure (the Clure Terminal is his father's namesake) and Helena Jackson tour the new facility with Gary Nicholson (right), president of terminal operator Lake Superior Warehousing Co., Inc.